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title: Eh hab eh dog fuh tree de coon, an eh hatchich fuh chop down de tree. — Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the… · tree and pragmatics
description: Eh hab eh dog fuh tree de coon, an eh hatchich fuh chop down de tree. A sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2, with its dependency tree and the pragmatics of every clause.
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# Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular, Opening, part 2, sentence 172

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Eh hab eh dog fuh tree de coon, an eh hatchich fuh chop down de tree.

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**To what, where:** eh dog fuh tree

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This is a sentence of «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Opening, part 2. The page gives its syntax tree — a dependency tree in the style of Universal Dependencies — and its pragmatics clause by clause: what happens, when and where, as Mova's frames read it from the tree.

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**Mova's own parse.** This tree may be wrong.

## The tree {#tree}

```conllu
# sent_id = book:pg76586:2:172
# text = Eh hab eh dog fuh tree de coon, an eh hatchich fuh chop down de tree.
1	Eh	Eh	PROPN	NNP	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
2	hab	hab	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nsubj	_	_
3	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
4	dog	dog	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	compound	_	_
5	fuh	fuh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	6	amod	_	_
6	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	0	root	_	_
7	de	de	ADP	IN	_	8	case	_	_
8	coon	coon	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	nmod	_	SpaceAfter=No
9	,	,	PUNCT	,	_	14	punct	_	_
10	an	a	DET	DT	Definite=Ind|PronType=Art	14	det	_	_
11	eh	eh	ADJ	JJ	Degree=Pos	14	amod	_	_
12	hatchich	hatchich	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	13	compound	_	_
13	fuh	fuh	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	compound	_	_
14	chop	chop	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	6	conj	_	_
15	down	down	ADV	RB	_	14	advmod	_	_
16	de	de	PRON	PRP$	Case=Gen|Person=2|Poss=Yes|PronType=Prs	17	nmod:poss	_	_
17	tree	tree	NOUN	NN	Number=Sing	14	conj	_	SpaceAfter=No
18	.	.	PUNCT	.	_	6	punct	_	_
```

## Pragmatics {#pragmatics}

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The frames reader finds no event or fact in this sentence.

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**Text:** «Negro myths from the Georgia coast, told in the vernacular» by Charles C., Jr. Jones, Project Gutenberg book 76586 (public domain in the USA). **Tree:** Mova's own parse, Elamur Cosmic License. **Frames:** Mova's frames reader (`prag`), the chapter read in order.

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